Each Monday, we turn to a day in the newspaper's history for a look at what the Editorial Board found worthy of comment. We will preserve the punctuation and capitalization of the original editorial column. Here is what we wrote on June 17 1950:

Beer and Ball ...

No doubt there are some who really think that selling beer at the baseball park might, in some fashion, vitiate the national game. We would hazard a guess that those who so believe are far outnumbered by those who think a scuttle of beer, at the seventh inning stretch, would make the game more enjoyable, and could hardly do any harm.

Besides, Wausau has so far had a losing team, and the club needs the small profit that sale of beer would represent.

We do not mean open drinking in the stands or bleachers. That would needlessly offend the strait-laced, who regard a beer as the symbol of social disintegration. But with a bar more or less concealed under the stands, and the requirement that beer sold must be drunk at the bar, there would be nothing to offend the most fastidious. Few adults can drink enough beer to affect them more than loosening their tongues - and everybody yells and jabbers at a ball game anyhow. It is one of the game's attractions and relaxations.

Wausau is a beer town, anyway, as everybody knows. Largely German in extraction, it has two busy local breweries, and most of the population hold that a glass of beer "ain't no sin." Our people drink it in their homes, our doctors approve its value as a food and a relaxer. It is sold in the hospitals, and at some church picnics.

Why deny the poor Lumberjacks something relatively harmless which might boost their slim gate receipts, and perhaps keep the club afloat? It wouldn't be much, but every little helps.

If memory serves, there isn't a big league or Association baseball park in this country where beer is not available. There aren't any statistics on that but anybody who has followed baseball knows it's true.

At least let's be consistent. If beer's a danger at Athletic park, it must also be a danger at Marathon park - there are plenty of youngsters there, too.